Water Quality Assessment of the Kenai River Watershed from 2000 to 2025 [DRAFT]

Author

Benjamin Meyer, Kenai Watershed Forum

Published

2026-04-21

Preface

Note: this online report is not optimized for use on mobile devices, and is best accessed on a desktop or laptop computer.

This document is the online work-in-progress version of the Water Quality Assessment of the Kenai River Watershed, 2000 - 2025. When completed, it will be an update to historical reports summarizing available data to date for this project (McCard 2007; Guerron Orejuela 2016).

Videos

Introduction

A four-minute video for general audiences.

Fieldwork Sampling Methods v1.0

A fifteen-minute video refresher on sampling techniques for field crews.

2022 International River Symposium

A ten-minute presentation introducing this project and it’s history:

Downloads

When the report is complete, it will be available for download as a PDF in this section.

Github

All project files and source code are hosted in a public GitHub repository at https://github.com/Kenai-Watershed-Forum/kenai-river-wqx, also accessible by clicking the GitHub symbol (cat shape) in the upper left corner.

Artificial Intelligence Note

Some refinement aspects of the codebase that generates this report were refined using ChatGPT (v5.3) and Posit Assistant (Claude Opus v4.6).

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This document is the online work-in-progress version of the Water Quality Assessment of the Kenai River Watershed, 2000 - 2025. When completed, it will be an update to historical reports summarizing available data to date for this project [@mccard2007; @guerronorejuela2016].

## Videos

### Introduction

A four-minute video for general audiences.

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### Fieldwork Sampling Methods v1.0

A fifteen-minute video refresher on sampling techniques for field crews.

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### 2022 International River Symposium

A ten-minute presentation introducing this project and it's history:

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## Downloads

When the report is complete, it will be available for download as a PDF in this section.

## Github

All project files and source code are hosted in a public GitHub repository at <https://github.com/Kenai-Watershed-Forum/kenai-river-wqx>, also accessible by clicking the GitHub symbol (cat shape) in the upper left corner.

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## Artificial Intelligence Note

Some refinement aspects of the codebase that generates this report were refined using ChatGPT (v5.3) and Posit Assistant (Claude Opus v4.6).
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This document is a report on the project, "Water Quality Assessment of the Kenai River Watershed, 2000 - 2025." It is an update to historical reports summarising available data to date [@mccard2007; @guerronorejuela2016].

This draft report is best accessed as an online interactive document at https://kenai-watershed-forum.github.io/kenai-river-wqx/, where it can also be downloaded as an Microsoft Word document.

All project files and source code are hosted in a public GitHub repository, also accessible at the above URL.
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